Congress’ Seat-share More than that of BJP’s

Sunday 29 May 2016

COMMUNICATION

In all five States taken together the Congress got more seats than the BJP but this was ignored by the media.

Although the media in India was recently saturated with the results of the Assembly elections, it was by and large ignored that if we combine the results of all the five States then the Congress has won 115 seats while the BJP has won only 64 seats. Thus the number of seats won by the Congress is much higher than the BJP. This can be more clearly seen in the table given below.

Table

Election Results of the Legislative Assemblies to the Five States/UTs

State/UT

BJP

INC

Assam

60

26

Kerala

01

22

Tamil Nadu

-

08

W. Bengal

03

44

Puducherry

-

15

Total

64

115

While it is clear that the Congress has suffered major setbacks and needs reforms, nevertheless its ability to get more seats than the BJP even in difficult times should not have been ignored by the media.